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1. Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 6, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.11.06.01+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
- Alternative Title:
- Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].
